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  1. Audition User Guide
  2. Introduction
    1. What's new in Adobe Audition
    2. Audition system requirements
    3. Finding and customizing shortcuts
    4. Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
  3. Workspace and setup
    1. Control surface support
    2. Viewing, zooming, and navigating audio
    3. Customizing workspaces
    4. Connecting to audio hardware in Audition
    5. Customizing and saving application settings
  4. Digital audio fundamentals
    1. Understanding sound
    2. Digitizing audio
  5. Importing, recording, and playing
    1. Multichannel audio workflow
    2. Create, open, or import files in Adobe Audition
    3. Importing with the Files panel
    4. Extracting audio from CDs
    5. Supported import formats
    6. Navigate time and playing audio in Adobe Audition
    7. Recording audio
    8. Monitoring recording and playback levels
    9. Remove silences from your audio recordings
  6. Editing audio files
    1. Edit, repair, and improve audio using Essential Sound panel
    2. Generating text-to-speech
    3. Matching loudness across multiple audio files
    4. Displaying audio in the Waveform Editor
    5. Selecting audio
    6. How to copy, cut, paste, and delete audio in Audition
    7. Visually fading and changing amplitude
    8. Working with markers
    9. Inverting, reversing, and silencing audio
    10. How to automate common tasks in Audition
    11. Analyze phase, frequency, and amplitude with Audition
    12. Frequency Band Splitter
    13. Undo, redo, and history
    14. Converting sample types
    15. Creating podcasts using Audition
  7. Applying effects
    1. Enabling CEP extensions
    2. Effects controls
    3. Applying effects in the Waveform Editor
    4. Applying effects in the Multitrack Editor
    5. Adding third party plugins
    6. Notch Filter effect
    7. Fade and Gain Envelope effects (Waveform Editor only)
    8. Manual Pitch Correction effect (Waveform Editor only)
    9. Graphic Phase Shifter effect
    10. Doppler Shifter effect (Waveform Editor only)
  8. Effects reference
    1. Apply amplitude and compression effects to audio
    2. Delay and echo effects
    3. Diagnostics effects (Waveform Editor only) for Audition
    4. Filter and equalizer effects
    5. Modulation effects
    6. Reduce noise and restore audio
    7. Reverb effects
    8. How to use special effects with Audition
    9. Stereo imagery effects
    10. Time and pitch manipulation effects
    11. Generate tones and noise
  9. Mixing multitrack sessions
    1. Creating remix
    2. Multitrack Editor overview
    3. Basic multitrack controls
    4. Multitrack routing and EQ controls
    5. Arrange and edit multitrack clips with Audition
    6. Looping clips
    7. How to match, fade, and mix clip volume with Audition
    8. Automating mixes with envelopes
    9. Multitrack clip stretching
  10. Video and surround sound
    1. Working with video applications
    2. Importing video and working with video clips
    3. 5.1 surround sound
  11. Keyboard shortcuts
    1. Finding and customizing shortcuts
    2. Default keyboard shortcuts
  12. Saving and exporting
    1. Save and export audio files
    2. Viewing and editing XMP metadata

Your computer must meet the minimum technical specifications outlined below to run and use Audition.

Applicable for

December 2022 (23.1) release.

System requirements for earlier releases

Audition system requirements | earlier releases.

Minimum system requirements for Audition

Windows

  Minimum requirement
Processor

Multicore processor with 64-bit support
Operating system

Microsoft® Windows 10 (64-bit) V20H2 or later
RAM

4GB of RAM
Hard disk space

4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; plus additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash storage devices)
Monitor resolution

1920x1080 or larger display
OpenGL

OpenGL 2.0 capable system
Sound card

Sound card compatible with ASIO protocol, WASAPI, or Microsoft WDM/MME
Control surface support 

USB interface and/or MIDI interface may be required for external control surface support (see manufacturer's specifications for your device)
CD burning Optical drive is used for CD burning (optional)
Internet

Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.

macOS

 

Minimum requirement

Processor

Multicore processor with 64-bit support

Operating system

macOS Big Sur v11.0 or later

RAM

4GB of RAM

Hard disk space

4GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash storage devices)

Display

1920x1080 or larger display (for best results)

OpenGL

OpenGL 2.0–capable system; optional GPU for optimum video playback performance

Control surface support

USB interface and/or MIDI interface may be required for external control surface support (see manufacturer's specifications for your device)

CD burning

Optical drive is used for CD burning (optional)

Internet

Internet connection and registration are necessary for required software activation, validation of subscriptions, and access to online services.
*This product may integrate with or allow access to certain Adobe or third-party hosted online services. Adobe online services, including the Adobe Creative Cloud service, are available only to users 13 and older and require agreement to additional terms and Adobe's online privacy policy. The applications and online services are not available in all countries or languages, may require user registration, and may be subject to change or discontinuation without notice. Additional fees or membership charges may apply.

Language versions available for Audition

French

German

Japanese

Italian

 

Spanish

Portuguese

Simplified Chinese

Korean

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